Wayne V. McDill

Wayne McDill is Senior Professor of Preaching at Southeastern Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. His more than forty years in the ministry include assignments as pastor and other pastoral staff positions, denominational staff for evangelism and church growth, and teacher at the college and seminary levels. McDill’s college work was in Speech Education at East Texas Baptist College. He studied at Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas for his masters and doctoral degrees. His doctoral work was in Christian Ethics, with secondary emphases in Philosophy and Preaching. He has taught at Southeastern since 1989. Previously he served nine years as adjunctive faculty for Golden Gate Baptist Seminary at the Portland, OR campus. He has taught preaching, communication, and rhetoric, as well as courses in church planting and pastoral leadership. He works with students in both the Ph.D. and D.Min. programs in preaching.

	McDill is the author of books on evangelism, preaching, and personal growth. Two of these are textbooks in preaching, The 12 Essential Skills for Great Preaching, Second Edition (2006) and The Moment of Truth: A Guide to Effective Sermon Delivery (1999). These books came out of classroom lectures of over twenty years of teaching sermon preparation and delivery. They reflect a conservative evangelical view of preaching as Bible based and in touch with the modern audience. More than 50 schools
in the US have used the 12 Skills book as a text. It has also been translated into Spanish and Romanian for use in Europe and Central America. An online project has been the development of a book for helping bi-vocational and untrained preachers and church planters in their preaching and teaching ministry. The book is entitled Preparing Bible Messages and is available at no charge on line or by email. The English version is being used in North America, as well as Asia and Africa. The Spanish translation is used in Latin America. The Swahili translation is being used in Kenya and Tanzania.
Dr. McDill and his wife, Sharon, have four grown children and 22 grandchildren. In addition to his teaching and writing responsibilities and her role as homemaker, they work with seminary students in various mentoring relationships. Another area of ministry is their significant involvement in their local church in various roles.